The 10 highest-earning games of the PS5 generation

Analysis organization Alinea Analytics has published its list of the highest-earning games of the PS5 generation. The chart shows the ten highest-grossing games in the current PlayStation generation. Additionally, the ranking was made based on revenue in monetary terms, not on quantity. For this reason, the revenue generated by the games, not the number of sales, was the determining factor in the list.

Who is at the top among the highest-earning games of the PS5 generation?

The leader was God of War: Ragnarok, which earned Sony $1.4 billion. Then comes Marvel's Spider-Man 2, with a slight difference. The revenue of Spider-Man 2 appears to be 1.3 billion dollars. Therefore, the difference between the first two games is quite small.

Gran Turismo 7 and Helldivers 2 are next in line. Additionally, other games in the top 10 have also been announced. First, we see these two plays, and then the following productions:

Horizon Forbidden West

Ghost of Yotei

The Last of Us Part 1

Ratchet and Clank: Rift Apart

Stellar Blade

Astro Bot

Thus, the list of ten games is completed with God of War: Ragnarok, Spider-Man 2, Gran Turismo 7 and Helldivers 2. However, the most striking point is where the income of these games comes from.

Most of the revenue came from console

According to the chart, most of the revenue in almost all games except Helldivers 2 came from direct console sales. This is interesting, because most of the studio titles on the list were later released on PC. Still, the PC side took a significant share.

On the other hand, Sony returned to its platform-exclusive game policy. The company no longer plans to bring its own games to PC. Therefore, the console's share in the revenue of new productions that will be among the highest-earning games of the PS5 generation may increase even more.

Total revenue and platform distribution

The top 10 games earned Sony a total of $6.5 billion. 84.7% of this revenue came from PlayStation. Steam provided a share of 14.1%. These figures also reveal the contribution of the PC to the games on the list.

The remaining 1.2% came from Xbox. Only Helldivers 2 contributed to this share. As a matter of fact, the other games on the list were not released on Xbox. How Sony's PC-free strategy will affect future lists will become clear with the sales data of new games.